Weekly Photo - 21/08/11 "Bikes on Beach Street"

With the clouds lifting again today resulting in a beautiful afternoon I decided to make my way down to Port Melbourne to find a moment for this weeks blog post. As the sun was just about to dip bellow the horizon I came across the cycle path, to prevent cyclists staring down the lens I; set my exposure, prefocused, lowered the camera to my hip, and fired off a few frames as the bikes went past.

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Weekly Photo - 14/08/11 "Tears & Cheers on the Yarra"

This week I will share photos from two very different situations both within a few hundred metres of each other. Despite that fact that I believe that we as Australians place too much emphasis on the achievement of our nations sporting elite I decided on Friday to go up to Federation Square and photograph the welcoming home of Australia's first Tour de France winner Cadel Evans.

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Sadly the next day only a few hundred metres away on the bank of the Yarra a Korean National studying in Australia died while trying to swim across the Yarra in part of what is believed to be a dare. I happened to be in the area so snapped off a few frames and made the front page of www.3AW.com.au for the second time.

Weekly Photo - 01/08/11 "Roll on Summer"

With Monday marking exactly 3 months until the first day of Summer here in Australia I was delighted on Saturday when through the clouds and drizzle of a Melbourne winter I saw a lovely moment of golden light, albeit brief it was a welcome peek in to the future.

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Golden light shines over Kings Way in Melbourne, taken through my kitchen window.

Weekly Photo - 25/07/11 "Saturday Sport"

Throughout 2007 and 2008 I would spend nearly every weekend of the school year photographing the Saturday Sport which was generally either Football, Rugby or Basketball, since I have been out of school my skills in shooting sport have slipped somewhat to the point that I decided last weekend to go back and shoot a few games of Rugby. It was great to see a few old familiar faces and shoot on a very familiar field. I certainly hope to shoot lots more sport in the coming months.

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Only a few months late!!

Over the Easter break from University my family and some close friends went to Eupi Island in the Solomons for a SCUBA Trip, I promised these photos a long time ago but simply forgot so here they are.

As many of you know I like to include statistics of my trip wherever possible.
15 = The number of dives over the week
764 = The number of minutes spent underwater at a depth deeper then 5m

354.7 = Combined depth of all dives
23.6 = Average depth in metres of each dive
30.1 = Depth of the deepest dive
7.9 = Depth of the shallowest dive
26.7 = Average temperature in Degrees Celsius at the deepest point of each dive
30 = The temperature in Degrees Celcius of the warmest dive, also happened to be the deepest

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Divers prepare their equipment on the way to a dive site.

Black Tip Reef Shark

Dad on his iPad... In the only spot with WiFi access!!

Can't remember what we where looking at here but everyone looks interested!

A normal Crab

A Coconut Crab

A fantastic musical instrument. 

A child from a near by island.

Weekly Photo - 11/07/11 "D.C. 2.0"

I'm sorry for neglecting the blog recently however as I have been busy taking photos in New York, Washington DC & Philadelphia I hope to make it up with plenty of photos over the next week. 

For my weekly photo I have chosen to share an image of the Washington Monument.

Also just for some shameless self promotion I just found out I received a High Distinction for Documentary & Editorial Photography at University this past semester :D

Six Days in London

Having recently spent 6 days in London, and having promised it in my last post, I have decided to do a bit of a wrap up of images shot in the six days.

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Only hours after landing I headed down to Westminster, no wasting time!

More Westminster...

A juggler practicing her craft at Marble Arch.

Feeding the pigeons at Marble Arch

In a rare moment of sunshine a Taxi passes Marble Arch.

Trek all the way to Buckingham Palace only to find out Changing of the Guards was canceled.

A guard in his sentry box.

A bit closer in...

The Selfridges building on Oxford Street.

Downing Street. Not often do i prefer a Hipstamatic photo over one from my dSLR,
I suppose the unobtrusiveness of the iPhone helped here.

Tower Bridge, taken only 16 hours before leaving London.